The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Thursday said the agency is extremely under-staffed.
The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, disclosed this at a news conference organised in Lagos to outline the agency’s focus for 2025.
According to her, “The number of staff that an agency has or should have depends on the population of the country because it is easier to regulate a country with one million than a country with 300 million people.
I’m just giving an example based on our population; we are supposed to have nothing less than 10,000 staff; we have about 2,000 right now.
We burn candles on both ends, overstress ourselves because we have to safeguard the health of Nigerians.
“We are not asking for 10,000 staff now; we are just asking for double or triple what we currently have,” she said.
She, however, stated that going into the year, it would focus on five strategic pillars to further safeguard the nation’s health.
Source; (Punch)
